Here are images created
by the team of volunteersworking on the replacement
for our "condemned" Village building,as well as a bit of other
information.Please direct your comments
and/or suggestions to Tim Mueller
/ GreyWolf Projects.Volunteers are
needed for on-site and pre-fabrication construction,and for dying and sewing
of the fabric (silk?) panels.Let us know how you can
help.

Please note:Info Booth portion (left)
is a 6' on center hexagon with full loft (except for the tree going through
it).House portion is a 6'
hexagon inside a larger 12' hexagon, with a 6' hexagon loft,connected to the info
loft by a bridge.The building's footprint
is the same as the present structure.The house will contain
the Master Gardner's Booth,as well as shady inner
gathering space with seating.Just to the left (and
behind) of the figure is a small bleacher-type seating area for viewing
the stage.The colored panels are
lenghts of fabric attached kinda like sails.They will rise 18' above
the loft, be dyed different colors, perhaps decorated with designs as well?Cool.

Community Village House
and Info BoothCapital Improvement Project

The Community Village House
and Info Booth have been condemned due to structuraldeterioration. After considering
many options, we, the Community Village Council andvolunteers, decided to
submit this project proposal to replace the existing structure withanother very similar,
incorporating design improvements and flexibility to meet present andfuture needs. It will
include floors, counters, and seating areas that will fold up to let light,
airand stream flow do it’s
natural thing without hurting the booth. It will have easy to replaceparts when damage occurs
so that it will be a lasting investment.

We will create a beautiful
and dramatic structure drawing people into the Community Villageto enjoy the peace and
calm, and to learn from the educational displays offered by our manynonprofit activist village
members. This plan is a vision of a “sun-sailing starship” -symbolizing our new, high-tech
world and it’s lesson that the whole earth is one community,that we are all connected
both physically and spiritually, organically and electronically, andthrough cyberspace and
other technologeis can actualize that connection - a “starship” made ofsimple wood - that each
of us in our basic humanity creates the community in which we live,and the simple act of
loving the earth is the foundation for all other acts.

The accompanying graphics
illustrate our plans for the structure. We will re-use all hardwareand salvageable lumber
from the present structure. A material list and cost anyalisis isattached. We anticipate
needing Fair carpenters to help with this major effort.

The Community Village is
a core element of the Fair. It’s venue for so many progressive anddiverse non-profits is
an actualization of the Fair dream. All of us at the Village hope thisproject will be enthusiastically
supported by the Fair Board.